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desired

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈzaɪəd//
  • United States//dɪˈzaɪɹd//

wished-for, longed-for

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of desiresimple past and past participle of desire

adjective

  1. 1

    wished-for, longed-for

    This is a highly desired holiday home.

    Her surprise gift of chocolates didn't have the desired effects

Forms

comparative
more desired
superlative
most desired
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).